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Class action

Helen Harvie looks ahead to the eagerly anticipated judicial review of independent schools' charitable status

Guiding light

The new sentencing guidelines are designed to ensure consistency and transparency, and give equal weight to both harm and culpability, argues Rosalind Campion as she rebuffs Jeannie Mackie's criticism

You will go to the ball

Mediocre food, talking shop and terrible speeches – why are barristers so keen on work parties? Felix figures it out

Measuring up

As French practitioners brace themselves for legal aid reform, Geraldine George considers how their system compares with ours

More unequal than others

Lawyers behind the Commission of Inquiry into Legal Aid were well aware of the accusations of bias likely to be levied against them. As leftfield organisations opposing the legal aid budget cuts the Young Legal Aid Lawyers and the Haldane Society expected to be criticised for trying to pass off their inquiry as a piece of independent research.

The gloves are off

The only winner in the Hastings-Bass U-turn will be the tax man, argues Ruth Hughes

French delicacy

Wondering who's been turning the European wheels of justice recently? Hamsters, mainly. Paul Stanley QC reports

Called into question

Don't be taken in by the LSB's skewed interpretation of the complaints handling survey, warns Susanna Heley